Asked to reflect on the recent backlash against Thomas Edison's pioneering "invention", his great-great-grand nephew ... ushered in the electrical age in the home. "The light bulb grew up with the ...

the enlightenment period. Navigating the open seas was a hazardous endeavour before the invention of the sextant. This device, first developed in the 18th century, allowed sailors to measure the ...

Far from being anti-science, environmentalism is the future in a world of finite resources and global perils, concludes Joachim Radkau in The Age of Ecology IT IS a new Enlightenment ...

Challenging the notion of an exceptional or exclusive British culture, this revisionist book by art historian and broadcaster Primo places the history of British art within a wider political ...

The “age of reason” that kicked off the Enlightenment was really “an ... extraction of resources from the Americas, and the invention of stock market speculation (with the Tulipmania ...